Patrice Lawrence

Patrice Lawrence is an award-winning author from a Caribbean and Italian family. She has always written – poetry until her teens, short stories in her twenties, screenplays in her thirties, and now a mash up of all of it – and is the winner of the Bookseller YA Prize and the Waterstones Prize for Older Children's Fiction. Patrice was born in Brighton and now lives in East London with her daughter, partner and Stormageddon, the tabby.